"Teaching Children to Think About Their Thinking—and to Think More Positively
Of all the things we aim to teach children, guiding them to learn how to learn should be near the top of the list. Diane Dahl's blog post above connects…"

"We have just been at the New York Academy of Sciences and Aspen Institute Brain Forum 'Cracking the Neural Code'. There Fred Gage, a leading expert on adult neurogenesis, was thrilled to hear that we begin our graduate studies with…"

I started thinking how great it…

I've learned through the BrainSMART program that one of the most powerful tools you can give your students is thinking skills. When you or I read (or do math, science, and even everyday life situations), we automatically make predictions, inferences, questions, schema, etc to help us understand and make decisions. Most of us weren’t explicitly taught these skills…we simply figured them out over time. Just imagine the…Continue

I’ve wanted to come up with a clever way for students to remember their thinking for reading strategies. A list just seems too boring. One thing I’ve learned in BrainSMART is to connect information to parts of the body to make it more memorable. So I came up with this…

"Hello Everyone,
I am new to this group and it is my first year teaching Kindergarten after teaching 1st, 2nd and 5th grade. Has anyone tried Power teaching in Kindergarten? I am trying to start implementing this structure and I have some…"

Welcome Primary Educators! Teaching students from ages 5 to 14 requires loads of subjects to cover and loads of resources to share. Join this group to reflect about your classes and brainstorm ideas for improvement.See More